Hifiman RE262 Initial Impressions - Page 54

Thanks a lot Proedros, all your RE-272 praises have greatly influenced me to find out what they are about! You guilty.

Can't wait to see how they do with a balanced HM801 (since supposedly, they were tuned for it)

I'll post my feedback once they are fully burned in, might be a few weeks... 

you're welcome

if you like clear/analytical sound i think you will like em

let us know your impressions

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Originally Posted by Tympan 

Thanks a lot Proedros, all your RE-272 praises have greatly influenced me to find out what they are about! You guilty.

Can't wait to see how they do with a balanced HM801 (since supposedly, they were tuned for it)

I'll post my feedback once they are fully burned in, might be a few weeks... 

I recently purchased a pair of the 262s after seeing the incredible review by joker and the impressions from this thread and I would like to know how it fares with genres such as rock and certain soundtracks that don't have an emphasis on bass. I would also appreciate hearing about how the E6 might improve sound quality from an unamped source considering that it seems many find the E6 insufficient.

Well, I've had the RE-272 for about 5 weeks now and I am thrilled with them.

At the risk of repeating what other have said about them, I'll try to keep it short:

1. They were a bit too edgy/snappy for my taste at first but burn in time smoothed them up beautifully. Sounded great after about 150 hrs, excellent after 300 hrs, and plain wonderful now at 500 hrs mark. 

2. I was kind of disappointed about the bass but quickly realized finding the right fit is crucial in the bass rendering department. Once I found the optimal insertion/depth with white silicone double flange tips, the bass/sub bass were 10 times improved already. Still a bit shy for me (coming from AH-D7000 and ie80) but the use of the equalizer on Hifiman HM-801 and iphone 4 (with $4.99 Accudio app!) took care of that beautifully. Bass texture and quality is now fantastic to my ears. The whole frequency spectrum is so well balanced and natural.

People seem to point at the treble being the strength of these buds but I think the meds, bass, and sub bass are equality impressive.

When comparing them with the balanced Hifiman with an iphone, I definitely preferred the Hifiman which produced better everything especially better bass weight. However, after installing Accudio pro on my iphone to benefit from an equalizer and better (Flac) files quality, I am quite amazed at how great the RE-272 sound. If not quite up to the balanced Hifiman's standard, it still sounds so good that I rarely use my Hifiman on the go anymore!!! I could totally live with just that.

... Perhaps the nicest surprise was to find out that Re-272 render any recording (older included) very well as opposed to many other earphones/headphones that in my experience, appeared to be very much recording dependent... 

Thanks to everyone's contribution that led me to give them a try, I'm sure enjoying them daily!

glad to hear you like them so much

imo you should post this on a re-272 thread - and yeah these are great iems

too bad these got discontinued , i jut saw that the 200$ pairs selling at amazon have sold out

oh well , hopefully hifiman will return with another winner

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tympan 

Well, I've had the RE-272 for about 5 weeks now and I am thrilled with them.

At the risk of repeating what other have said about them, I'll try to keep it short:

 

1. They were a bit too edgy/snappy for my taste at first but burn in time smoothed them up beautifully. Sounded great after about 150 hrs, excellent after 300 hrs, and plain wonderful now at 500 hrs mark. 

2. I was kind of disappointed about the bass but quickly realized finding the right fit is crucial in the bass rendering department. Once I found the optimal insertion/depth with white silicone double flange tips, the bass/sub bass were 10 times improved already. Still a bit shy for me (coming from AH-D7000 and ie80) but the use of the equalizer on Hifiman HM-801 and iphone 4 (with $4.99 Accudio app!) took care of that beautifully. Bass texture and quality is now fantastic to my ears. The whole frequency spectrum is so well balanced and natural.

People seem to point at the treble being the strength of these buds but I think the meds, bass, and sub bass are equality impressive.

 

When comparing them with the balanced Hifiman with an iphone, I definitely preferred the Hifiman which produced better everything especially better bass weight. However, after installing Accudio pro on my iphone to benefit from an equalizer and better (Flac) files quality, I am quite amazed at how great the RE-272 sound. If not quite up to the balanced Hifiman's standard, it still sounds so good that I rarely use my Hifiman on the go anymore!!! I could totally live with just that.

 

... Perhaps the nicest surprise was to find out that Re-272 render any recording (older included) very well as opposed to many other earphones/headphones that in my experience, appeared to be very much recording dependent... 

 

Thanks to everyone's contribution that led me to give them a try, I'm sure enjoying them daily!

Well, I would have loved to secure a back up pair of RE272 but the RE600 are coming up and I am just too curious about them now

; )

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this but I have a pair of RE262 and the sound died out on the right side. I think the problems lies with the bottom half of the wire(not sure what it's called. Below is a link of a picture of the stuff included in the original packaging. The three wires to the right of the IEMs are what I'm referring to. I'm not sure if my package came with 3 but I always used the white wire because the black one always only gave sound to the left side.

https://a248.e.akamai.net/pix.crutchfield.com/ImageHandler/fixedscale/900/900/products/2012/27/818/x818RE262-o_all.jpeg

So in any case, I imagine the best solution would be to buy a new wire? Does anyone know if those are sold standalone? Really need someone's help! 

If you are sure the problem lies with the extension cable, you can purchase replacement cables on head-direct.

http://head-direct.com/Products/?act=detail&id=119

Depending on when you purchased them they might give you the cable for free. Like the guy above said give them a shout. I needed a cable and they gave it to me after I emailed them the invoice.